QuickTime for the Web: A Hands-On Guide for Webmasters, Site Designers, and HTML Author is one of the informative and easy-to-read guide portion of its kind, and perhaps one of the best in Apple's QuickTime Developer Series. Loaded with real-world examples, code snippets, and text to digest, this book opens your eyes to the real power of QuickTime, which goes farther than just allow you to create and play short video. QuickTime is a technology, in covering all of which can be used to display all sorts of things, including programmable functions and site navigation. Nineteen chapters cover everything from how to download and install QuickTime to the special features of the QuickTime plug-ins (you can limit the extent of downloading movies, so users with fast connections do not hog all the bandwidth) for streaming vs. There is a great example of the calculator that was made entirely in QuickTime using sprites. As an added bonus, the accompanying CD-ROM contains QuickTime 4 Pro for both Macintosh and Windows (which is worth only the cost of the book), various kinds of tools to create, edit, and convert audio and video, and most of the examples in this book.